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1 hour ago, Palmerstunned said:
First time posting on here, as a long time Queens supporter and reader of this message board the current state of the club has finally prompted me into action!
This is easily the worst Queens team I've had the misfortune to watch in many years going to Palmerston. Yes we've had poor teams in the past (often very poor) but generally there has always been at least a glimmer of hope, a bit of fight or passion in the team that as a supporter you felt might get us back into games, even if more often than not it didn't actually end up getting us a result. However, that's been totally absent this season and I now find myself going to games with absolutely no hope or expectation that this team will do anything other than collapse to another abject, pathetic, toothless defeat.
Gibson, Brydon, Todd, Reilly, Connelly, Cochrane, McKay, Walker - these are all players that can and should be capable of doing a job at this level. Gibson and Walker are arguably our 2 most creative attacking players out wide and should cause problems for any team in this division, yet Bartley consistently leaves them on the bench or plays them far too deep to make any difference. As a local boy, Gibson is exactly the kind of talent we should be nurturing, if, as reported, he does leave in the summer then I will lay the blame solely at Bartley's door. The reality of Scottish League 1 football is that it ain't always pretty, strength, pace, aggression and direct attacking football are what gets results at this level. Trying to play it out from the back and continual sideways passing like Man City or Real Madrid won't work at this level, the players just don't have the skill to be able to pull it off. Teams that try to play that way at this level will very quickly get found out, as we've seen all too often this season.
Like many, I was genuinely excited when Bartley came in and was desperate for him to be a success, but he's clearly way out of his depth and his naive tactics, stubbornness and arrogant management style have sucked the life out of the players, the supporters and the club. He makes absolutely no attempt to create a connection or build a rapport with the fans, witness how he always immediately disappears straight down the tunnel at the final whistle with absolutely no acknowledgement of the supporters that continue to turn up week-in week-out despite the abject performances being served up and the lack of anything approaching even mild entertainment. I can't work out if this is due to sheer embarrassment at the quality of the performances or just down right pig-headedness. I can only assume the latter as his post match interviews are masterclass in gaslighting and a complete insult to those of us who pay good money to attend the games. If he wants to continue a career in football management after this disaster then he's got a hell of a lot to learn with regards to managing things off the field as well as tactics on the field. I get that as a young manager he perhaps wants to position himself as a no-nonsense, hard taskmaster, but his complete lack of humility or self-reflection completely let him down. Any self respecting Board would have sacked him after the home defeat to Kelty in November, the fact he is still here nearly 6 months on is a damning indictment of those running the club and an utter dereliction of duty.
Bartley and the Board are extremely lucky that Queens supporters are so passive. Supporters of any other full-time club in our current position would likely be subjecting the manager and the Board to a barrage of banners and chants during matches ('Bartley Out', 'Sack the Board'), fan protests outside the ground and potentially even boycotts (although perhaps you could argue that is happening silently anyway through falling attendances). With the exception of a few seconds of booing at full time and a few moans and groans on social media, Queens supporters are an apathetic bunch. Perhaps we should share some of the blame for not being more active or forceful in making our voices heard and trying to force change (and I include myself in this)?
Like many, I just want this season to be over now to put me out of my misery. Hopefully we're still in League 1 at that point, if we are it will only be because results elsewhere will have helped us, I'm under no illusions - this team under this manager couldn't fight it's way out of a wet paper bag. From there, a complete re-build is a MUST this summer, a new Board, a new Manager and a complete overhaul of the playing squad. I'll certainly be holding off buying a season ticket until at the very least Bartley has gone.
But despite everything, I still hold out hope that somehow and at some point better is to come - it's all we've got, right?
Great post. Hard to argue with that.
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8 hours ago, Dougie Mills said:
He’s pish
He’s not, really. Was surprised to see him go off yesterday. Thought he was causing Alloa problems.
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1 hour ago, Mulberryblue said:
Maybe contact Jardine’s the funeral director for advice. They arrange death notices in the standard as part of their service. I’m sure they will give you contact information.
2 hours ago, Fae_the_'briggs said:Just noticed the Standard says Dumfries Office is closed, never realised that. Editor Jackie Grant's number given as 07917 516166 maybe can point you in the right direction.
Thanks for everyone's help. Now sorted. For anyone interested it's a centralised online system now at funeral-notices.co.uk
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13 minutes ago, Alex Nesovic's Barmy Army said:
May have better luck by email, maybe providing them a contact number to reach you on?
Dgnews@s-un.co.uk
Thanks, but that's not working either!
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OT: A bit of advice required. My family have been trying to contact the Standard to place a death notice. None of us live in the town and the numbers we've tried (255252 and 240342) haven't responded or are out of service. Can anyone recommend a contact? Or is anyone on here connected? Any advice appreciated.
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12 minutes ago, Priti priti priti Patel said:
Looking at booking a trip back up to see friends and watch a game. We don't currently have a fixture scheduled for 17 February 2024. Are we likely to get on put in?
If we were to get past St Mirren, the next round is scheduled for 10 February 2024, so it's not being held for that.
I have Edinburgh away in my calendar.
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3 hours ago, Distant Doonhamer said:
I’d rather avoid a non league team. The season thus far has been embarrassing enough.
Somewhere different from the usual. Non-league away.
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Hopefully Toby will run opposition defenders Raggett.
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17 hours ago, Fae_the_'briggs said:
Don't know if it's supporters being deliberately thick but the notion that having a big striker will mean nothing but launching high balls up via route one ad nauseum seems to be their main fear. It is possible to play "the modern way" with a tall physical striker to get on the end of crosses in from the wings when the ball players have played their fancy passing with movement and pace in the build up. If your striker is also fairly decent with the ball at his feet, who knows, he may also be able to contribute to playing "the modern way".
^^ Pretty much agree with this ^^. Can’t see the problem with having a bit of a presence up front if we can find one. It would only need to lead to a lump up the park if and when we felt the need to resort to that. One of those ‘good feet for a big guy’ types could play a part imho. Just another option. Certainly better than lumping it up to a big guy who isn’t there, which, let’s face it, we’ve seen in the past.
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Any word re the rearranged Dobbie testimonial?
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1 hour ago, qos1990 said:
Saves a pen
cracking win, disappointing not to go through after an unbeaten campaign. Positives to take though, bring on the league
Good save, and , I thought, a good battling performance. As for the officials, least said the better...
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8 hours ago, lowland star said:
Was told today we will be bring in a centrehalf on loan from one of the old firm if true could be a game changer and maybe a striker from same team as well it will be after this weekend thou .
Which one?
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Totally contradictory info on the BBC tonight. Did we win or lose the shoot out?
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Anyone know anything about:
Possible timing of rescheduled Dobbie testimonial?
The state of play re away tickets for the Queen’s Park game on the 29th?
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1 hour ago, Greenacres said:
Brilliant from our Lydon typical goal from him using his pace and power then his assist for Dobbie sorry McLean was first class .
Agreed. It continues to baffle me that some people don't rate his time at Queens. A total grafter, even when he was used as a kind of right wing target man for Robinson's weird kick outs.
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15 minutes ago, Priti priti priti Patel said:
That away shirt is absolutely rotten.
It’s an odd one for sure.
6 minutes ago, Dougie Mills said:Yeah I’m not loving that away shirt!
Me neither, but at least it’s not red. I don’t like the home one as much as this past year’s but with white shorts it will look ok.
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11 hours ago, Skyline Drifter said:
I believe it is open door.
Thanks, SD.
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Anyone know yet if the game at EK on 24 June is confirmed as open door?
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3 hours ago, jakeyman said:
Pots announced for the League cup group stage. Who do we fancy ahead of the draw tomorrow?
Bonnyrigg away. Only SPFL ground I haven’t seen us play at.
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12 hours ago, 19QOS19 said:
He should have been playing 4-4-2 when he had Dobbie at his disposal but instead decided to go with a system that completely hindered our biggest threat - playing Dobbie up top himself.
The fanny.
Indeed.
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2 hours ago, Skyline Drifter said:
The answer is in the post you quoted! Well kinda anyway. I don't have any details of the EK friendly, I just heard we were playing them. It certainly won't be at home though as we don't currently have a pitch.
Duh. Missed that!
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2 hours ago, Skyline Drifter said:
We are playing Livingston pre-season. Not Hibs as far as I'm aware. According to Euan Maxwell on Facebook Marvin's told him we're playing East Kilbride, Livingston and Dundee United though United is closed door. I was aware of the first two, though not what date the EK one is yet. United is news to me. All friendlies will be away for obvious reasons.
Any idea if the EK game is going to be home or away?
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9 hours ago, Monkey Tennis said:
This is a simply disgraceful take.
Spelling errors are forgivable. This is not a spelling issue 'Doonhammers' makes a different noise from 'Doonhamers '. I can think of few things quite as worthy of stressing about.
Smacks to me of rather sloppy journalism. I can imagine they’re under pressure of time but they’re paid to write ffs.
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See we're being linked with a bid for Josh McPake in the Record.
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The Queen of the South thread
in Scottish League 1 General Chatter
Posted · Edited by louisxiv
If they stick with the one on their homepage it will be illegible on the shirts. Hope the designer gets this right.